We built our own home after years of home ownership. Instead of the "second hand problems and mystery issues"of our previous home, we experienced the brand, spanking new and outrageously overpriced problems which tend to set in when all guarantees have expired.
It's my home and I learned a lesson. My hpuse was built in 1954. So I wondered randomly to myself what it would take to get the wiring updated fron 4 screw-in fuse up to code. Nature replied: a tornado dropped a tree on my living room. New roof, new wiring, floors refinished, new ductwork (some of which I paid for). The lesson was " be careful what you ask for" but my insurance paid for it. The company will no longer insure houses as old as mine.
Fondly remembering the New Years Eve when the upstairs toilet broke and water gushed through the ceiling into an unreachable space
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We built our own home after years of home ownership. Instead of the "second hand problems and mystery issues"of our previous home, we experienced the brand, spanking new and outrageously overpriced problems which tend to set in when all guarantees have expired.
This, right here, is a universal truth.
It's my home and I learned a lesson. My hpuse was built in 1954. So I wondered randomly to myself what it would take to get the wiring updated fron 4 screw-in fuse up to code. Nature replied: a tornado dropped a tree on my living room. New roof, new wiring, floors refinished, new ductwork (some of which I paid for). The lesson was " be careful what you ask for" but my insurance paid for it. The company will no longer insure houses as old as mine.